Transfigurism II

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The dramatic, terrible life of the aeons must fill us with horror. They maintain themselves in the reflection-sphere and that is their prison. Their loathsome activity always causes tremendous atmospheric and geologic upheaval.

More and more entities are being drawn away from their spheres of action and led into Eternal Freedom as the continuing impulses of the Universal Brotherhood constantly gather new harvests. The aeons are becoming increasingly weaker and since, to them, "a thousand years are but as one day", they stand under the eternal judgment of the words: "even now the axe is laid to the root of the tree".

It is important to understand clearly the struggle between the Elohim and the aeons. It is not a matter of black and white hosts ranged against one another, as mystic artists would have us believe. No, the warriors meet one another in the object of their interest; the encounter takes place in the human heart, in the essence of the blood, in the nerve fluid, in the human consciousness and in the place where we live -- the world.

Let us suppose that the Elohim are radiating a new redeeming impulse over the world, and let us call that impulse the manifestation of Christ. Then the gnostics will be active in linking that impulse with humanity as deeply and widely as possible. The aeons accede to this impulse, they pretend to cooperate while trying to make the impulse serve the maintenance of the dualistic nature-order. In this way, the nature-physical and the nature-metaphysical rays develop, as well as the rays of natural-religion, giving rise to the various occult and ecclesiastical trends. These trends are designed to block the spiritual stream of the Universal Brotherhood in the human organism.

Ecclesiastical and occult magic spring from one and the same source, from the hierarchy of the aeons. Thus it is entirely understandable that the Christian bishops, as servants of the aeons, are the declared enemies of all gnosticism and that they go hand-in-hand with the occultists to curtail -- or, if possible, exterminate -- every gnostic development.

So, from time to time, the world experiences an extremely gruesome masquerade. Under the guise of exaltedness and in the name of Jesus Christ, as previously in the names of many earlier divine messengers, millions are taken captive by the aeons and rendered immune to the Divine Touch -- until these violated beings can be offered a new chance of salvation after a Cosmic Revolution.

There is no one more Christian, more pious, humane and loving than the aeons and their servants! But one will be able to recognize them immediately by their behavior and aim (g: "you will know them by their fruits"). For them, it is essential that our I-consciousness be maintained, for that is the essence of what ties us to duality. In addition, they try to keep the masses ignorant, for an ignorant group lends itself particularly well to magical exploitation.

If the individual wants development, then there is occultism. However, the aeons view a development of this kind with envy insofar as the occult path irrevocably leads to the pupil himself becoming an aeon.

Almost the entire New Testament, in contrast to the Old, is a gnostic testament. The Gnosis is averse to the greater part of the Old Testament because of its occult aspects and the strongly racial emphases which are interwoven with the universal message. These can give rise to many dangers, as has been amply proven. Especially names in the Old Testament, as symbols of cabbalistic formulae can, by and large, very easily bring about occult connections and hence, over-shadowing.

So we are placing you before the imperishable Gnosis which has, as its starting point, the idea that the Divine Spirit is held captive in the world of the senses and that, consequently, it is necessary to rise up out of this prison, out of this imprisoned soul-man. In this way, the Original Spirit-Man can be united with the Primary Source of All Things, by means of insight, professing and striving.

From "Gnostics and Rosicrucians" - The Great Revolution - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Once one becomes aware of the presence of the Gnosis throughout human history and its role in the affairs of men, one should begin to feel a stirring in the heart and mind. What have the Churches been trying to keep hidden from humanity? Why haven't we been told about The Other Reality, the true Reality, and how to get there? If one looks carefully at the history and pre-history of mankind, one should start to see the merciful thread of the Gnosis winding its way through all ages and all civilizations, offering salvation to all who are mature enough and ready enough to grab hold of it.

So it has been, so it is, and so it shall be in the ages to come, until all of God's children have returned Home.

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